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10 of 10 people (100%) found this review helpful

Recommended

26.7 hrs on record

Posted: February 25

There isnt really any other game quite like this one. It's an adventure that changes with each playthrough based on the decisions you make. You are Stanley and you start out in your stale office, in your stale job, in your stale life....or do you? Perhaps your life is amazing, sad, depressed, happy...whatever. The choice is yours.

The gameplay is seamless. Perfect controls for the game. The graphics are also top notch. It actually looks like the Unity engine a bit, but if it was, the developer maximized what he got out of it. Some of the puzzles can be challenging, and deception factors in to some aspects of this game as well.

The narration however is really where this game is at. There are only two other games that I can think of that rivals this one in that regard (Battleblock Theater, Bastion), although their styles couldnt be more different.

I have seen something like 18 different endings with this game. Not sure how many there really are, but there are a lot, and so as you can expect, there is a ton of replay value with this game.

The developer also had some fun with the achievements. One of them is to play all day (24 hours) on a Tuesday, lol. One is to play, and then play again a year later. Etc....

This game is an easy 10/10. It is perfect for what it is trying to be, doesnt force anything, and allows itself to be whatever you want it to be.

This game is about a man name Stanley. That's it! that is literally the storyline. This game explores the nature of the narrative driven storyline, with it's own unqiue twist through funny and witty dialogue, plus moments of self awareness. The game is such a great game to play for getting laughs out of a terrible day, and also seeing your friends play it and seeing them go insane at the lack of a real true ending to this game.

I recommend this fantastic game! and i hope we get to see more in the near future!

3 of 3 people (100%) found this review helpful1 person found this review funny

Recommended

2.0 hrs on record

Posted: February 28

How good is this game? So good that even the fake President of the United States plays this game. But aside from that, it is funny and engaging and all you're really doing is walking around listening to the soothing voice of the narrator. Highly recommended.

The Stanley Parable is the worst open-world sandbox I have ever played. I was hoping, upon starting the game for the first time, that I would be given a space to explore that is so large that it takes upwards of an hour to get to my next objective, but the Stanley Parable is too busy entertaining me to give me a massive wasteland to explore. (0/10)

The Stanley Parable is a horrible action game, because it's gameplay lacks complexity. With an abscence of enemies comes an absence of action, of tension, and investment in the plot. It's also worth noting that the afforementioned plot is totally nonsensical, and the devs found it more important to create their own artistic vision than to appeal to the tastes of myself, and no one else. (10/0)

The Stanley Parable is the best Stanley Parable game that The Stanley Parable has made so far. The amount of Stanley is STAGGERING this time around, and the Parables at the players fingertips are all unique in their own ways, and they preach valuable lessons that any aspiring Stanley could find beneficial to their own Parables. (97.9999994/10)

I bought the Stanley Parable for $20, and was incredibly upset at how short it was, even with it's large amount of endings and easter eggs to hunt for. I reached 100% completion after a mere 2 and a half hours. Haven't the Galactic Cafe heard of the proper 'amount paid to hours of gameplay' ratio? For every dollar, a game must provide .683445 hours of content in order to be considered 'worth a purchase'. With what I paid for, I should've gotten 13.6689 hours of engagement for what I paid. It would be best to buy it on a sale for the correct price: 2 dollars and 5 cents American. (1 euro/70 euros)

The Stanley Parable is an incredibly well made novelty, which is unfortunatley not very long, and some may find the lessons lying within it's subtext to be too obvious. Also, the Galactic Cafe didn't pay us to advertise the game on our horrendously designed website, so my corporate overlords have dictated that we rate it less than the latest installment of the Call of Duty franchise, which has single-handedly kept our site financially up and running since 2008. (8/10)

The protaganist isn't a woman. (-5/Woman)

Since completing The Stanley Parable, I've been able to install several mods, and have added killstreaks, dialogue trees, an inventory screen, and I've exchanged the game's soundtrack with the Transistor Soundtrack. (Best Game Ever/10)

I feel a need to rate this game badly, because it didn't deliver on the promises made in it's trailer: Never at any point was I able to have the infinite freedom the british man promised me, and there isn't even a single bicycle in the game. Guess I'll have to go back to the limitless freedom of Skyrim, where I can ♥♥♥♥ the shopkeepers wife in plain view and no one will care. Skyrim: (8/8) Starable: (2/Skyrim)

I hate this game because I can't convey all the little touches that make it interesting and valuable, because people don't have enough time to read an ENTIRE review, and people would rather put faith in the notion that some random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the internet will enjoy a game in exactly the same ways they do.(Thegameisallatoncefunny,insightful,andthought-provoking/10)

At its core, Stanley Parable is a shallow game. You can't jump, you can't shoot, all you do is press buttons and move around. But that isn't the point of the game. The point of this game is at its unique narrative that constantly breaks the forth wall and mock the very people who bought this piece of game without any hesitation. Maybe this shouldn't be called a game, but a piece of 'art'. Because unlike the average games we play, this game is something you can't critique.

You do much less in this than, say for example, Bastion. Heck, it's even shorter than the game. Heck, the reason why this recommendation is so damn short is because the game is literally shorter than an hour. Yet despite the lack of content, this game is special. And no, not the bad kind of special, but the unique kind of special.

What I can say is that if you play games for the sole reason of entertainment, this isn't the game you're looking for. There is a time when games are no longer known for it's mindless entertainment, but it's potential to expand into the deep sea of art and philosophy. Stanley Parable is one of the kind.